I'm a little confused by that, too.. unless someone's feelings were hurt because I said Gentoo is a pain in the ass to install, which is true. Heck, it didn't even support the onboard ethernet. Gentoo is my favorite distro, which is why I went through all the trouble to install it in the first place.
I still recommend the netbook remix. If, however, you want to try Gentoo I highly recommend moving the portage temp dir to a ramdisk to speed things up and minimize reads/writes to the SSD.
I use the ubuntu netbook remix. I have tried Xandros (default), eeeXubuntu (worked pretty well), and gentoo (pain in the ass to set up, but that's what gentoo is all about).
I recommend trying the netbook remix of Ubuntu. It's the one I have kept using the longest because I like the interface and it works well with the low resolution (I have an eee 701).
My favorite farewell letter was the one I sent out that simply quoted Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters. I would ask my boss for information and he would just talk of of his ass because he was really quite ignorant (and a jerk). He would tell me I asked too many questions, and I would tell him he provided too few answers. It turns out a lot of my co-workers were big FF fans, so they really got a kick out of it as well.
One last thing before I quit I never wanted any more than I could fit Into my head I still remember every single word You said and all the shit that somehow came along with it Still there's one thing that comforts me since I was Always caged and now I'm free
I am having flashbacks to my days as a.NET developer. Never again! The documentation is just terrible. What do those 240,070 fields do? I don't know, here is what 6 of them do, figure out the rest by trial and error.
Darn, you meat me to it. EXT2/3 can also be read in OSX, so it looks like we already have a perfectly good FS that can work in Windows, Linux, and OSX. Do we need another?
You forget that a criminal doesn't need to have anything delivered to his/her house. The CC can be used to charge for "ghost" goods from offshore retailers and the money can sent directly to the thief's bank account. Most americans (generalizing from experience) have several cards and only look at their statements once a year, so you could easily nickel and dime a few thousand people a day and they would never notice it for a year. I have seen it work.
Why would dell's plan to ship Ubuntu be bad? I don't think a lot of retards are going to be wondering "where's internet explorer" because said retards will just get Vista, the retard operating system of choice. The people that are going to be picking Linux as their OS either already use it or are mentally capable of switching. My father, for instance, just switched the computers in his house to osx AND linux after getting fed up with Vista (and not wanting to go back to XP). He has had no problem with either OS, and he only ever calls me up for help when he has some esoteric question about how Linux works.
Dell may even be able to make the situation better for the Ubuntu (and general linux) community by increasing the user base and potentially helping with drivers, funding, etc. After all, they have their precious reputation at stake and it is in their best interest to see Ubuntu succeed and improve upon itself, if only to make their own customers happy.
I worked in a call center that did support for MSNIA. That was horrible in itself, but I had to deal with people who had anywhere from 2-8 extra accounts that were created each time they went to best buy. Some of the people didn't even have a computer! In one case an elderly lady bought a microwave, which didn't work, then returned for a new one and ended up with 2 dial-up accounts... which she didn't notice for a year! Now that last part is her fault, but I arranged for a full refund because I hate microsoft and their scummy ways.
I don't know where this tech support BS comes from.
Can't you just buy a Dell (nice cheap reliable hardware) with linux (nice cheap reliable software) and agree to just fix the software problems yourself? They won't charge you for an OS you don't ever call tech support. Hell, they should charge you less for the hardware... but I think it's only fair to let them take the profit.
How 'bout it, Dell? Can we agree to be reasonable here?
We (I and other) Americans aren't as skilled or hard working as foreigners, so our solution is to just let more immigrants in?
Yes!
It's all well and good to buckle down, start teaching your kids real science, actually setting academic standards and sticking to them, but how does that help you NOW? You can't magically create a skilled 25-year-old worker to fill a position in a growing company, and if you can't get a nice shiny American to do it then you're going to have to open your borders and your minds and look elsewhere.
Try and rally your co-workers to work harder, go on, it'll be fun. 4 out of 5 will grab a beer and sit down to watch football.
As I understand the lunar dust is much "rougher" as it hasn't been polished by the same forces (eg: wind and water), which causes it to stick to just about everything.
"the effects could be sorted into nine categories: vision
obscuration, false instrument readings, dust coating and contamination, loss of traction, clogging of
mechanisms, abrasion, thermal control problems, seal failures, and inhalation and irritation. Although
simple dust mitigation measures were sufficient to mitigate some of the problems (i.e., loss of traction) it
was found that these measures were ineffective to mitigate many of the more serious problems
(i.e., clogging, abrasion, diminished heat rejection). The severity of the dust problems were consistently
underestimated by ground tests, indicating a need to develop better simulation facilities and procedures."
I wonder how someone could manufacture "fake moon dust" here on earth. Meh, at least I can sleep at night knowing this isn't my problem.
I am completing my degree program in network security, and this weekend we held our "wargames" to attack and exploit each team's network. The end result was a total and complete farce. Each team demonstrated a fundamental lack of understanding of networking and security, which isn't surprising because they're the kind of poeple that think daddy a deposit down on their degree that they get to collect at the end of four years. Nobody learned a damn thing and even when we tried to spell out what went wrong they wouldn't listen or couldn't understand.
Your average retarded security-ignorant end user in a company should at least be protected from himself to some degree by a trained IT security professional. The article mentions apathy of "professionals" when it comes to protecting their networks, but what about full blown ignorance? 75% of my graduating class couldn't outwit a used tea bag, but their social connections and rich parents will see to it they get a job where the 25% of the class that knows what they are doing (and has to work their ass off to stay in school) will be struggling at the end.
Home users are even worse. I have the priviledge of working in tech support to pay my way through school and I deal every day with the fucktards who think their computer is a magic box that brings porn and games. I get asked security questions all day but I have to lie becaause a) the truth will take too long to explain to someone that doesn't know how to find the radio switch on his laptop and b) the truth will get me fired.
True, but isn't intelligence a genetically-passed trait? Having access to eduaction has nothing to do with the intelligence of the person or their parents.
On a serious note, Curry hasn't said anything that hasn't been proposed before by science fiction authors like Aldus Huxley or Issac Asimov. The future division and mutation of our species is something worth considering unless you subscribe to the theory that man kind was created in some magical and purposeful way, complete with all the creatures in their current (and permenant) form.
Assuming the species survives another ten thousand years, I hope there are a lot of tall, slim, intelligent, and creative boys and girls with green eyes;)
A year later, 2.5 million ECS motherboards will be in dumpsters around the world. Not because they are garbage, per se, but because they are "obsolete." Doesn't anyone stop and think about the expense (to this planet) of all these companies making all this crap?
The security of the end user's pc is the responsibility of the end user. Besides, the problem is bigger than any one ISP can solve. Furthermore, as long as they pay the bill, Shaw doesn't care what goes on.
Most every physical-plant control device, whether it be security cameras, chilled water-valve actuators or parking garage card readers, are being designed to work with the IP network"
Sounds like they're introducing a single point of vulnerability. In one fell swoop you could take out a lot of important systems.
We'll have to leave that to the europeans or the chinese, because unless it can be commercially exploited america just isn't interested anymore. I for one can't imagine anything more interesting than pushing the boundaries of our scientific knowledge, but alas I seem to be of a dying breed.
I think your idea is great, though. Getting there is the hard part, so we should send multiple probes. Also, multiple points of data collection will give us more information on what is going on.
Good point. Screw the gameplay and have a full ship walkthrough that looks this good and it'll sell like hotcakes. Probably more so than if they tried to make it a game.
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I'm a little confused by that, too.. unless someone's feelings were hurt because I said Gentoo is a pain in the ass to install, which is true. Heck, it didn't even support the onboard ethernet. Gentoo is my favorite distro, which is why I went through all the trouble to install it in the first place.
I still recommend the netbook remix. If, however, you want to try Gentoo I highly recommend moving the portage temp dir to a ramdisk to speed things up and minimize reads/writes to the SSD.
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs
I use the ubuntu netbook remix. I have tried Xandros (default), eeeXubuntu (worked pretty well), and gentoo (pain in the ass to set up, but that's what gentoo is all about).
I recommend trying the netbook remix of Ubuntu. It's the one I have kept using the longest because I like the interface and it works well with the low resolution (I have an eee 701).
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu_netbook_remix
My favorite farewell letter was the one I sent out that simply quoted Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters. I would ask my boss for information and he would just talk of of his ass because he was really quite ignorant (and a jerk). He would tell me I asked too many questions, and I would tell him he provided too few answers. It turns out a lot of my co-workers were big FF fans, so they really got a kick out of it as well.
One last thing before I quit
I never wanted any more than I could fit
Into my head I still remember every single word
You said and all the shit that somehow came along with it
Still there's one thing that comforts me since I was
Always caged and now I'm free
I am having flashbacks to my days as a .NET developer. Never again! The documentation is just terrible. What do those 240,070 fields do? I don't know, here is what 6 of them do, figure out the rest by trial and error.
Darn, you meat me to it. EXT2/3 can also be read in OSX, so it looks like we already have a perfectly good FS that can work in Windows, Linux, and OSX. Do we need another?
Is there any room in this crazy world for an error message saying "this CableCARD has been associated with another device?"
You forget that a criminal doesn't need to have anything delivered to his/her house. The CC can be used to charge for "ghost" goods from offshore retailers and the money can sent directly to the thief's bank account. Most americans (generalizing from experience) have several cards and only look at their statements once a year, so you could easily nickel and dime a few thousand people a day and they would never notice it for a year. I have seen it work.
Why would dell's plan to ship Ubuntu be bad? I don't think a lot of retards are going to be wondering "where's internet explorer" because said retards will just get Vista, the retard operating system of choice. The people that are going to be picking Linux as their OS either already use it or are mentally capable of switching. My father, for instance, just switched the computers in his house to osx AND linux after getting fed up with Vista (and not wanting to go back to XP). He has had no problem with either OS, and he only ever calls me up for help when he has some esoteric question about how Linux works.
Dell may even be able to make the situation better for the Ubuntu (and general linux) community by increasing the user base and potentially helping with drivers, funding, etc. After all, they have their precious reputation at stake and it is in their best interest to see Ubuntu succeed and improve upon itself, if only to make their own customers happy.
I worked in a call center that did support for MSNIA. That was horrible in itself, but I had to deal with people who had anywhere from 2-8 extra accounts that were created each time they went to best buy. Some of the people didn't even have a computer! In one case an elderly lady bought a microwave, which didn't work, then returned for a new one and ended up with 2 dial-up accounts... which she didn't notice for a year! Now that last part is her fault, but I arranged for a full refund because I hate microsoft and their scummy ways.
I miss the real trees. I hope the server farm that this virtual forest will reside in is green. It would lessen (but not eliminate) the pointlessness.
I don't know where this tech support BS comes from.
Can't you just buy a Dell (nice cheap reliable hardware) with linux (nice cheap reliable software) and agree to just fix the software problems yourself? They won't charge you for an OS you don't ever call tech support. Hell, they should charge you less for the hardware... but I think it's only fair to let them take the profit.
How 'bout it, Dell? Can we agree to be reasonable here?
You really have to see it in action! I found the video on metacafe.com that was mentioned in the article.
_ launching_refrigerator/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/445498/robotic_beer
Perhaps he simply meant "on non-ms operating systems." Sometimes, I too forget about that "other OS."
Those are the good days.
We (I and other) Americans aren't as skilled or hard working as foreigners, so our solution is to just let more immigrants in?
Yes!
It's all well and good to buckle down, start teaching your kids real science, actually setting academic standards and sticking to them, but how does that help you NOW? You can't magically create a skilled 25-year-old worker to fill a position in a growing company, and if you can't get a nice shiny American to do it then you're going to have to open your borders and your minds and look elsewhere.
Try and rally your co-workers to work harder, go on, it'll be fun. 4 out of 5 will grab a beer and sit down to watch football.
Goodbye environment!
As I understand the lunar dust is much "rougher" as it hasn't been polished by the same forces (eg: wind and water), which causes it to stick to just about everything.
The Effects of Lunar Dust on EVA Systems During the Apollo Missions
I wonder how someone could manufacture "fake moon dust" here on earth. Meh, at least I can sleep at night knowing this isn't my problem.
I am completing my degree program in network security, and this weekend we held our "wargames" to attack and exploit each team's network. The end result was a total and complete farce. Each team demonstrated a fundamental lack of understanding of networking and security, which isn't surprising because they're the kind of poeple that think daddy a deposit down on their degree that they get to collect at the end of four years. Nobody learned a damn thing and even when we tried to spell out what went wrong they wouldn't listen or couldn't understand.
Your average retarded security-ignorant end user in a company should at least be protected from himself to some degree by a trained IT security professional. The article mentions apathy of "professionals" when it comes to protecting their networks, but what about full blown ignorance? 75% of my graduating class couldn't outwit a used tea bag, but their social connections and rich parents will see to it they get a job where the 25% of the class that knows what they are doing (and has to work their ass off to stay in school) will be struggling at the end.
Home users are even worse. I have the priviledge of working in tech support to pay my way through school and I deal every day with the fucktards who think their computer is a magic box that brings porn and games. I get asked security questions all day but I have to lie becaause a) the truth will take too long to explain to someone that doesn't know how to find the radio switch on his laptop and b) the truth will get me fired.
You want security? It's your responsiblity.
Education is not a genetically-passed trait
True, but isn't intelligence a genetically-passed trait? Having access to eduaction has nothing to do with the intelligence of the person or their parents.
On a serious note, Curry hasn't said anything that hasn't been proposed before by science fiction authors like Aldus Huxley or Issac Asimov. The future division and mutation of our species is something worth considering unless you subscribe to the theory that man kind was created in some magical and purposeful way, complete with all the creatures in their current (and permenant) form.
Assuming the species survives another ten thousand years, I hope there are a lot of tall, slim, intelligent, and creative boys and girls with green eyes ;)
You didn't notice that democracy was a farce in your country after the 2000 election. Enjoy your descent into facisim!
A year later, 2.5 million ECS motherboards will be in dumpsters around the world. Not because they are garbage, per se, but because they are "obsolete." Doesn't anyone stop and think about the expense (to this planet) of all these companies making all this crap?
Soon there will be no place for our piscine enemies to hide! We will hunt them to the ends of the earth! Fuck the planet!
Poor guys just can't catch a break... Soon the only food source left will be people.
The security of the end user's pc is the responsibility of the end user. Besides, the problem is bigger than any one ISP can solve. Furthermore, as long as they pay the bill, Shaw doesn't care what goes on.
Most every physical-plant control device, whether it be security cameras, chilled water-valve actuators or parking garage card readers, are being designed to work with the IP network"
Sounds like they're introducing a single point of vulnerability. In one fell swoop you could take out a lot of important systems.
We'll have to leave that to the europeans or the chinese, because unless it can be commercially exploited america just isn't interested anymore. I for one can't imagine anything more interesting than pushing the boundaries of our scientific knowledge, but alas I seem to be of a dying breed.
I think your idea is great, though. Getting there is the hard part, so we should send multiple probes. Also, multiple points of data collection will give us more information on what is going on.
Good point. Screw the gameplay and have a full ship walkthrough that looks this good and it'll sell like hotcakes. Probably more so than if they tried to make it a game.